Space Weather Systems
Real-Time Ionospheric Characterization:
Highlights
- Specification of ionosphere over any region of the earth.
- Self-consistency in terms of experimental data and constrained by ionospheric models
- User-defined ionospheric models
- Fully adjustable location, size, latitude, longitude, altitude, and time grid sizes of region of interest
- 3-D and 4-D specifications within constraints
- Compatibility with a variety of data; TEC from GPS, GPSMET, ground-based, satellite-borne beacons and/or receivers, ionosonde (vertical and oblique), radio propagation data, radar data, optical, WISBY, transponders, and known emitters
- Various techniques and toolkits
- User-friendliness, can be used at various levels of sophistication
- Ability to supplement incomplete data or replace absent data with theoretical models
- Ionospheric parameters, propagation, prediction, and TEC values obtainable from 4-D ionospheric characterizations
- "Objective" determination of ionospheric heights using "premotography" module. Integral-based approach, instead of the difference-base approach of tomographic algorithms.
- Various tomographic techniques that are used for further improvements of density distributions.
- Use of several expertly determined initial guesses to assure confidence in the reconstructed profiles.
- Plasmaspheric model, allowing efficient use of GPS data.
